New York, Oct. 9.
IHE New York Yankees crushed the Chicago Cubs, 8-3, for their fourth straight victory in the 1937 World Series at the Yankee Stadium and became the first team in baseball history to win the world-championship for three consecutive years and seventh time in all.
Knocking five pitchers out of the box, the Yankees became the mightiest team on record and achieved with ease what other great teams sought but failed to obtain. The Yankees succeeded where the late John McGraw and his powerful New York Giants and Connie Mack and his brilliant Philadelphia Athletics failed in their life-long quest for three straight world-title.
And what made the achievement all the more remarkable was the fact that it was the guiding genius of Joe McCarthy, who never played a game in major league baseball, that piloted the Yanks to victory.
McCarthy, without the knowledge of the game such as possessed by McGraw and Mack, built up a team which turned in a better performance than any other. With Frank Crosetti again the hero and Charlie Ruffing repeating his fine performance of the first game, the Yanks butchered the Cubs.
The booming bats of the Yanks blasted five hurlers off the mound. Everything was attempted by Gabby Hartnett in his desperate effort to stem the tide of defeat, but the Yanks surged to victory over all the attempts. A crowd of 59,847 baseball enthusiasts saw the game shift swiftly from a tense, hard-fought battle of the diamond into a complete rout.
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